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Originally Posted by Allan125
Hello Peter
Thank you for clarifying the situation with regard to what you actually hold, and intend publishing, about the events of 16 October 1939, concerning both 602 and 603 Squadrons.
However, concerned that you show Archie McKellar as a S/Ldr - he was a serving member of 602 Squadron, not a supernumerary, so highly unlikely that he would also be the same rank as the actual Squadron OC at the time S/Ldr A D Farquhar, more likely a F/Lt., so what is your definitive source that states he was an S/Ldr in 602 at this time please?
Keep up the good, and lengthy, work - I look forward to its publication.
Allan
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Hello Peter
Further to my piece above concerning the rank of Archie McKellar on 16 October 1939 - according to my own research he was a Flying Officer at that time, attaining that rank on 8 May 1938, having been commissioned as a Pilot Officer on 8 November 1936, so even I was incorrect in guessing that he was a Flight Lieutenant.
90168 Archibald Ashmore McKellar was promoted from F/O to Flt/Lt on 1 June 1940
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34876/pages/3711 - he was transferred to 605 Squadron shortly afterwards, and was subsequently awarded the DFC in September 1940
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34945/pages/5487 as a Flight Lieutenant, along with a bar to the DFC in the Gazette of 8 October 1940, also as a Flt Lt, and the DSO as a S/Ldr on 26 November 1940, all for 605 Squadron.
I trust that you will now alter your record accordingly - after your own confirmation of my evidence of course.
Allan